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we were within the Tropics the only delay was occasioned by 
a successful whale hunt or two, and a week's calm on the 
Equator. On Mav 8 we arrived at Barbados, from where I 
took the first steamer home, arriving- in Xew York Mav -'4. 
1913, after an absence of exactly one year. 
The collections of the expedition are the jjroperty of the 
American Museum of Natural History and the Brooklyn 
;\Iuseuiu. The principal items are as follows: upwards of four 
hundred photographic negatives of birds and marine mammals. 
whaling. South Georgia physiog^raphy, etc.: series of skulls 
of the seals Miroun^a and Oi^ino) liiniis and one skin and 
LOOKIXG EASTWARD ON'ER THE BAV OF ISLES. 
skeleton of the latter; skulls, skeletons or embryos of six 
species of cetaceans: five hundred l)irds representing about 55 
species, and including mav skeletons as well as skins: more 
than a hundred sets of birds eggs: 78 fishes in alcohol, a few 
reptiles, miscellaneous collections of insects .and marine in- 
vertelirates, histologic preparations, etc., etc. 
It is greatly to be regretted that all of the fishes obtained 
at South Georgia disintegrated on the homew.ard ^■oyage 
owing probably to the sejjaration and stratification of the 
inixture of water and alcohol in which thev had been placed. 
The collections are now being worked up, but of course 
it may l)e several years before reports on the m,-immals and 
